Seeds of collapse? Reconstructing the ancient agricultural economy at Shivta in the Negev

Daniel Fuks; Ehud Weiss; Yotam Tepper; Guy Bar-Oz

doi:10.15184/aqy.2016.167

Seeds of collapse? Reconstructing the ancient agricultural economy at Shivta in the Negev

Daniel Fuks, Ehud Weiss, Yotam Tepper, Guy Bar-Oz

Bar-Ilan University, University of Haifa

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Abstract

Lessons from history on sustainability, collapse and resilience are the ultimate goal of the Byzantine Bio-Archaeology Research Program of the Negev (BYBAN) (Tepper et al. 2015). Addressing the unprecedented flourishing and collapse of the Byzantine Negev agricultural settlements (fourth-seventh centuries AD), the BYBAN project offers a unique and original approach. It focuses on ancient middens and domestic contexts, which provide an exceptional focus on the materiality of daily life. Archaeobotanical research is central to this project because the copious plant remains retrieved are a reflection of the region's agricultural economy and its environmental sustainability.

Original language	American English
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	90
Issue number	353
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.167
State	Published - 1 Oct 2016

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